US Patent Issued to Apple on June 30 for "Selective amplification of voice and interactive language simulator" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,639, issued on June 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Selective amplification of voice and interactive language simulator" was invented by Shiraz Akmal (Playa Vista, Calif.), Aaron M. Burns (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Brad K. Herman (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving an audio input including an utterance, determining, based on a speaker profile, an identity of a speaker of the utterance, determining whether the identity of the spea...